# Bio.Align.emboss module

Bio.Align support for “emboss” alignment output from EMBOSS tools.

This module contains a parser for the EMBOSS srspair/pair/simple file format, for example from the needle, water, and stretcher tools.

class Bio.Align.emboss.AlignmentIterator(source)

  Bases: `AlignmentIterator`

  Emboss alignment iterator.

  For reading the (pairwise) alignments from EMBOSS tools in what they call the “pairs” and “simple” formats.

  fmt: str | None = 'EMBOSS'
  __abstractmethods__ = frozenset({})
  __annotations__ = {'fmt': 'Optional[str]'}
  __firstlineno__ = 19
  __static_attributes__ = ('metadata',)

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